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"  OMG! Did you check out our feature in August&amp;#039;s issue of Seventeen about a girl who totaled her brand new car while texting? Thanks to Nicole&amp;#039;s story, we all know it&amp;#039;s dangerous to text while driving, but what about texting while walking? Last week, 15-year-old Alexa Longueira from Long Island, New York fell about five feet into an open manhole while she was texting her friend. Alexa was able to crawl out of the raw sewage and now has several cuts and bruises marking the freaky incident. We&amp;#039;re glad Alexa made it out okay of an experience she called &amp;quot;really gross and shocking\u2026it was scary!&amp;quot;  Alexa&amp;#039;s family is now planning to file a lawsuit. Her mom told the Staten Island Advance that whether Alexa was sending a text or not shouldn&amp;#039;t make any difference because workers never should have left the open manhole unattended. Do you think Alexa still would&amp;#039;ve fallen if she hadn&amp;#039;t been busy texting? Alexa&amp;#039;s incident is part of a larger series of accidents (some even deadly!) involving texting while walking. In fact, some states are considering outlawing texting while walking in crosswalks and pedestrian zones! What do you think about all of this? Was Alexa being totally careless \u2013 or is this the kind of honest mistake anyone could make? Do you think there should be laws against texting? Sound off! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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